Anthropic appoints a national security expert to its governing trust

A day after announcing new AI models designed for US national security applications, Anthropic has appointed An expert in national security, Richard Fontaine, to his long -term trust.

The trust of anthropic’s long -term benefits is a governance mechanism that anthropogenic demands help promote security on profits and which has the power to elect a part of the company’s board of directors. The other members of the trust include the CEO of effective altruism, Zachary Robinson, the CEO of Clinton Health Accessive Neil Buddy Shah, and the president of the action of evidence Kanika Bahl.

In a press release, the CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, said that the hiring of Fontaine will be “[strengthen] The ability of the trust to be anthropic through complex decisions “on AI regarding security.

“Richard’s expertise arrives at a critical moment, because the advanced capacities of the AI ​​intersect more and more with national security considerations,” continued Amodei. “I have long thought that the guarantee of democratic nations maintains leadership in responsible development of AI is essential for both global security and the common good.”

Fontaine, who as a trustee will have no financial participation in Anthropic, previously was adviser in Foreign Policy for the late Senator John McCain and was a auxiliary professor at Georgetown Teaching Security Studies. For more than six years, he led the center for new American security, a group for reflection on national security based in Washington, DC, as president.

Anthropic has increasingly committed American national security customers while looking for new sources of income. In NovemberThe company has teamed up with Palantir and AWS, the Cloud Computing Division of the Partner and Investor of Anthropic, Amazon, to sell the AI ​​of Anthropic to Defense customers.

To be clear, Anthropic is not the only best AI laboratory after defense contracts. Openai is looking for To establish a closer relationship with the US Defense Ministry and META recently revealed that it makes her Lama Models available for defense partners. In the meantime, Google is refining A version of its Gemini Ai capable of working in classified environments, and AdhereWho mainly builds AI products for companies, also collaborates with Palantant to deploy its AI models.

Fountain hiring occurs while anthropic oxen in their executive ranks. In May, the company appointed the co-founder of Netflix Reed Hastings to its board of directors.